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PRINT SALE!
$200 each
Image size: 20" x 16"
Paper size: 24" x 20"
"August #5"
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Upcoming Workshops |
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Abstract Painting Workshop I
April 15, 1 - 5 PM
Dig into a variety of painting media, tools, and materials (canvas, paper, wood) to explore the diversities and fun of painting abstract. Learn the difference between student and professional grade materials. The class offers an intimate setting with no more than 4 students, providing a supportive small-group environment and ample private guidance.
Course Price: $150 per person including all supplies. $255 for two workshops.
Abstract Painting Workshop II (Pre-requisite: Workshop I)
May 6, 1 - 5 PM
Continue to acquire more painting techniques by using different tools and medium. Learn how to draw inspiration from different sources to create new compositions. Synthesize and apply the techniques and experience you have accumulated to produce new projects. Painting larger will also be a focus.
Course Price: $150 per person including all supplies. $255 for two workshops.
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"Change Starts Here" |
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 I was hired by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria to design and teach a course at the Glenlyon Norfolk High School that would coincide with the United Way's 75th anniversary. The theme of the United Way's celebration is "Change Starts Here," so for the workshop, I asked the students to think of the following:
How do you identify yourself in your generation and your community? Do you see yourself in a position to alter or affect your surroundings? Through painting, express how the theme "Self-Portraits: Change Starts Here" applies to you personally—be it on a microscopic level of personal changes or on a macroscopic level of changes you would like to see in your community.
Unfortunately, space limitation doesn't allow me to showcase all my students' amazing paintings and artist statements. However, you can enjoy them live at the United Way's "Change Starts Here" Exhibition at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, April 29th – May 13th. Opening reception: May 4th.
 Above left is Jane Wright's painting. Artist Statement: "I approached this portrait with my passions in mind, hoping to find change within them. I thought of literature, my passion for reading, and my time as the school newspaper editor. Literature is something I believe should be enjoyed by everyone, so it was only fitting that I should address the problem of illiteracy through my painting. The newspaper clippings bring together these various aspects while correlating with the theme, Change Starts Here.”
Alexandra Santos: "It's Forgiven" (middle left). Artist statement: "No matter how much negativity and doom-saying there are in the world, I still feel a strong hope for the future. When I think about the state our planet is in, the animals we have displaced and forced to extinction, the ice that has been frozen for thousands of years melting, and the smog that corrupts the lungs of all who breathe it, it is easy to feel like there is no hope. Nevertheless, the damage we are doing can be curbed; we can build a more sustainable future for our children and us. Planting trees may seem like a small change, but each tree contributes to the wellbeing of the planet, much like people can. We are the generation who must fix the mistakes from before us and prevent them from ever happening again." | | Read more | | | |
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daydreamed of spring by looking at fashion magazines. I came across a dress (left) that inspired the palette for "Terra Nova." A friend commented that, perhaps, my recent trip to Kenya animated the hot hues. Who knows how inspiration works? Somewhere along the line, my latest painting was borne. 
